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No. 14: The Programme I'll Discuss With You
Bobinet and Marquise
MIDI File 2' 53"
| MARQUISE: | The programme I'll discuss with you, | ||
| So kindly take me through it. | |||
| I want to know what you can do, | |||
| And how you mean to do it; | |||
| For, though it must be up-to-date, | |||
| My friends and my relations | |||
| Of course will only tolerate | |||
| Respectable gyrations. | |||
| BOBINET (bowing): | Madame has made it clear as day, She wants a most refined display. |
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| MARQUISE: | I beg you won't by any chance Perform an unbecoming dance, |
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| You might, perhaps, suggest it so — (dance) But nothing more than that, you know, Nothing more than that, you know! |
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| BOTH: | I/She beg(s) you/I won't by any chance Perform an unbecoming dance, |
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| You/I might, perhaps, suggest it so - (dance) But nothing more than that, you know! Nothing more than that, you know! |
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| BOBINET: | We've got the champion pugilist, | ||
| And everybody backs him; | |||
| Cuirasses that a shot resist | |||
| By Dowe and by Maxim, | |||
| Of comic songs you'll hear the gem, | |||
| And, when our audience wearies, | |||
| We wake them up by showing them | |||
| Our Tableaux Vivants series! | |||
| MARQUISE: | Oh! hush! my worthy fellow, hush! You wouldn't like to see me blush! |
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| BOBINET: | There's nothing that will make you start, We only deal in works of art, |
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| And realize a picture, so — (dance) With just a little less, you know, Just a little less, you know! |
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| BOTH: | There's nothing that will make me/you start, They/We only deal in works of art, |
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| And realize a picture, so — (dance) With just a little less, you know! Just a little less, you know! |
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| (Dance. ) | |||
| MARQUISE: | Although I've danced the minuet, | ||
| So stately, grave, and haughty, | |||
| I've never tried a dance as yet | |||
| That anyone called naughty. | |||
| Skirt dancing now is all the rage, | |||
| I'd learn it in a minute; | |||
| But do you think at middle age | |||
| It's prudent to begin it? | |||
| BOBINET (bowing): | Madame would look extremely sweet When tripping on those dainty feet! |
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| MARQUISE: | You've no idea what ladies do! I've seen them dance the gay Chahut, |
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| And fling their little feet up so — (dance) But rather more than that, you know, Rather more than that, you know! |
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| BOTH: | You've/I've no idea what ladies do! I've/She's seen them dance the gay Chahut, |
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| And fling their little feet up so — (dance) But rather more than that, you know, Rather more than that, you know! |
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| (Dance. ) | |||
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